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Title: Are 440 intake gaskets needed w pan?
Post by: Dodgerdallas on August 11, 2013, 06:00:52 PM
Got a Eddy RPM intake goin on the 440 and wondering if I need gaskets on top/bottom of the pan or at all,Ive heard both...anybody got a suggestion?
Title: Re: Are 440 intake gaskets needed w pan?
Post by: Cooter on August 11, 2013, 06:02:15 PM
I do not, but I DO use sealer on BOTH SIDES in order to keep oil from making a mess.
Title: Re: Are 440 intake gaskets needed w pan?
Post by: Dodgerdallas on August 11, 2013, 06:15:44 PM
What just around the ports?
Title: Re: Are 440 intake gaskets needed w pan?
Post by: 2Luke2 on August 11, 2013, 06:19:02 PM
What kind of sealer haha... we were about to throw ours on today, but it was so ugly just the plain color so we had to paint it first.
Title: Re: Are 440 intake gaskets needed w pan?
Post by: Dodgerdallas on August 11, 2013, 06:24:05 PM
Mines pretty and shiney !
Title: Re: Are 440 intake gaskets needed w pan?
Post by: cudaken on August 11, 2013, 07:02:54 PM

My self, for decades I only seal the front and rear valley pan rails. Maybe I have just been luck?  :shruggy: I had one brass plated Just to make it pretty. and used over and over for about 10 years!

Cuda Ken
Title: Re: Are 440 intake gaskets needed w pan?
Post by: Dodgerdallas on August 11, 2013, 07:08:59 PM
Cool never heard o that
Title: Re: Are 440 intake gaskets needed w pan?
Post by: Cooter on August 11, 2013, 07:23:51 PM
Quote from: Dodgerdallas on August 11, 2013, 06:15:44 PM
What just around the ports?

Yes, and I even go so far as to put some on the threads of the intake bolts, along the front and rear of block rails too.
Title: Re: Are 440 intake gaskets needed w pan?
Post by: 69wannabe on August 12, 2013, 06:13:54 PM
I have never used the paper gaskets that come with the valley pan. I have used a thin layer of silicone on the front and back and around the ports and sometimes I use Indian head shellac around the ports. Just depends on what I can find on the work table first and if i'm bout out of silicone. ;D